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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2018-7079

Certain administrative operations in ClearPass Guest do not properly enforce authorization rules, which allows any authenticated administrative user to execute those operations regardless of privilege level.

HIGH 7.2EPSS 0.94%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.94%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

Aruba ClearPass Policy Manager guest authorization failure. Certain administrative operations in ClearPass Guest do not properly enforce authorization rules, which allows any authenticated administrative user to execute those operations regardless of privilege level. This could allow low-privilege users to view, modify, or delete guest users. Resolution: Fixed in 6.7.6 and 6.6.10-hotfix.

CVSS 3.0
7.2 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
0.94% probability · 61th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-863
Affected
arubanetworks/clearpass policy manager
Source
security-alert@hpe.com
EPSS trend
0%3%5%27 October 2026: 0.94%27 October 202627 October 2026

EPSS 0.9% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.